torture

Landmark settlement ends long-term solitary confinement in Calif. prisons

September 3, 2015 By Marilyn Bechtel

Some 2,858 inmates were reportedly held in solitary; some for 10, 20 or even 30 years, spending all but an hour or so of their day isolated in tiny cement-lined cells.

Chicago to pay reparations to police torture victims

May 5, 2015 By Don Babwin

Victims of police torture would share $5.5 million, receive an apology and see their story taught in school under a reparations package.

The CIA backstory needs to be remembered

December 12, 2014 By Emile Schepers

As the debate on the Feinstein Committee's torture report continues, we need to remember the "backstory."

UN officials demand prosecutions for U.S. torture

December 11, 2014 By John Heilprin

All senior U.S. officials and CIA agents who authorized or carried out torture like waterboarding must be prosecuted, top U.N. officials said Wednesday.

SOA Watch protest links immigration with foreign policy

December 2, 2014 By Lisa Bergmann

Pinochet's army in Chile, generals who fueled El Salvador's civil war and murderous paramilitaries in Colombia's drug war have all been trained at the SOA.